Paper Trails & Pixels
The Art of the Chat
The Clinical Coach
Med Math Mania
The Clinical Cocktail
100
The legal rule that states: "If it wasn't ________, it wasn't done."
What is documented?
100
The therapeutic technique of repeating the patient's message back to them in your own words.
What is restating/paraphrasing?
100
The "Domain of Learning" that involves physical movement and motor skills.
What is psychomotor?
100
Convert 125 micrograms (mcg) to milligrams (mg).
What is 0.125 mg? 
100
The "S" in SBAR stands for this.
What is situation?
200
The standard format used during hand-off to ensure all pertinent data is shared.
What is SBAR (or ISBAR)?
200
The "personal bubble" or physical distance (usually 1.5 to 4 feet) used during a patient interview.
What is personal space/zone?
200
The method where a patient explains a procedure back to the nurse to confirm understanding.
What is the teach-back method?
200
Order: 500mg. On hand: 250mg/5mL. How many mL do you administer?
What is 10 mL?
200
The primary goal of "Counseling" as opposed to "Teaching."
What is to provide emotional support/facilitate coping?
300
This type of charting only records findings that fall outside of standard norms.
What is Charting by Exception (CBE)?
300
Using "I" statements instead of "You" statements is a hallmark of this communication style.
What is assertive?
300
The acronym used to assess a patient's readiness to learn (P.E.E.K).
What is physical, emotional, experiential, and knowledge?
300
An IV is running at 125 mL/hr. How many liters will the patient receive over a 12-hour period?
What is 1.5 Liters?
300
This type of error occurs when a nurse fails to document a medication immediately after giving it.
What is a documentation error (specifically "Timing")?
400
Documentation that occurs at the bedside in real-time is known as this.
What is point-of-care documentation?
400
The phase of the nurse-patient relationship where the nurse and patient set goals and timing.
What is the orientation phase?
400
This developmental theorist’s stages must be considered when teaching a pediatric patient.
What is Erikson (or Piaget)?
400
Order: Heparin 800 units/hr. Concentration: 25,000 units in 500mL. Find the mL/hr.
What is 16 mL/hr?
400
The term for the non-verbal communication of matching a patient's posture and tone.
What is mirroring?
500
Under HIPAA, this is the only acceptable reason for a nurse to access a medical record.
What is a "Need to Know" to provide care?
500
The communication barrier that occurs when a nurse provides unwanted advice or clichés.
What is false reassurance?
500
This "Effect" describes how a patient's self-belief in their ability to succeed affects learning.
What is self-efficacy?
500
Order: 5mcg/kg/min. Weight: 70kg. How many mg will the patient receive in 1 hour?
What is 21 mg?
500
This report is filed after a medication error, but is never mentioned in the patient's chart.
What is an incident (or variance) report?